Apple may take some heat for its App Store policies, but never let it be said that they aren’t constantly working to improve their developer relationships. This week’s big change came in the form of new tools to allow iPhone OS developers to set the exact release date of their applications as well as schedule price changes.

After a lengthy outage on Thursday, the iPhone Developer website sparked back to life with a few interesting nuggets, including a new lower price for the Mac Developer program which has at least one tech blogger predicting a new App Store may be coming.

Lately, Apple has been trying to pass the peace pipe to its iPhone developers after a number of growing pains related to the App Store. Another piece of the puzzle fell into place this week with RSS feeds for the iPhone Dev Center website.

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